I had the privilege of presenting a Planet In Distress series at the Portsmouth Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire this Friday and Sabbath, and I promised them that I would post the end-time chart that I use.  Here it is!

When God created the world, He did so in a highly organized, highly intentional way.  He knew what He was doing and He created a fantastically beautiful, amazingly well organized world.  He used systems to organize this world and make it sustainable–our atmospheric system, our hydrospheric system (all the surface water on the planet), our […]

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and today many Muslim religious leaders issued a joint statement from a meeting in Turkey calling on all Muslims but especially on developed countries to lead the switch to renewable fuels and reduce CO2 emissions so that global warming does not cross the 2C threshold.  Their argument […]

Take a good, hard look at the image below.  It is a representation of sea-surface temperature anomalies the world over (“sea” in this case including large lakes).  I count eight serious things that are wrong with this picture, and I’ll take a few minutes to describe what they are and how they are impacting human society […]

How does the steadily accelerating decline in the earth’s system’s (our atmosphere, hydrosphere, etc.) fit into end-time scenarios as Adventists understand them?  How does the Pope’s recent environmental encyclical fit into the overall scenario?  Is there a scenario that makes sense out of what we see unfolding? I recently spoke at the Northern New England […]

Do you trust people to do the right thing?  Do you trust politicians?  Do you trust business people?  Do you trust the water, fuel, and mercantile transportation infrastructure?  Do you trust that the environment will treat the earth gently and that major storms or earthquakes will not come near where you live? If you live […]

There are two striking reports out in the last week which, when juxtaposed, are sobering. The first is reported by The Guardian, and talks about ice sheet collapse. A few years ago when I talked about ice sheet collapse and dramatically rising sea levels, the best science had such things happening in the next few hundred years.  […]

I am a regular reader of Robert Scribbler and, though we have slightly different perspectives, I have a profound respect for his blog.  If you are interested in the collapsing arctic ice field (and, yeah, it really, really matters as it drives our jet stream and has knock-on effects on other key global systems), then […]

There are over 300 wildfires burning in Alaska right now.  That is so many fires that if you put pins for each fire on a map, it is hard to even see the map, as you can see below.   With that many wildfires burning at once, some half million acres were consumed by fires yesterday alone.  The […]

Back on May 13 (which seems like a really, really, long time ago), I posted this article about the likelihood of seeing record disasters in 2015 because of the confluence of accelerating ice loss in the arctic and the emerging El Nino.  For Texans, the article would have been prescient had it not been so general. The […]